Sunday, 15 December 2013

DECEMBER

I hope everyone is enjoying this month of Christmas. We started off with our second annual "new Christmas book tradition", given on December 1st. This year it was Thomas Saves Christmas and it's been read a ton so far. The boys do their advent calendars each night together, one usually ends up with both chocolates though. They each also received a new Christmas tree ornament on December 1st, possibly another new tradition.


Last Saturday night was the Boy's and Girl's Club telethon. The daycare kids did a couple of little songs. It was recorded and will air on Bell on the community channel at some point throughout the month. I don't have any dates or times. I guess we just have to try to catch it.



Lights are going up around the island and its fun to go for drives at night to see them. We went last night after the Santa Claus parade.  There was a cement mixer all lit up in the parade so you can guess which float was the favorite.
Today was a good snow day. Besides plowing and playing in the snow, we made a tent in the kitchen which was really cozy and Brady was a good sport about.


I had lots of "help" making two kinds of gluten-free Christmas cookies today. Our family always has gingerbread boys and shortbreads at Christmas so I found two recipes I thought might work and gave them a try. Brady says they're actually pretty good so that was good news. Gluten-free baking isn't always the best. We saved three big gingerbread boys, decorated with Smarties, for Christmas Eve - one for each boy and one for Santa.

 
A couple of notes of excitement for our family from this month: Brady was accepted into the Police Foundations course in the Miramichi for next fall (which is actually happy/sad - happy for him, sad for me), and, I have a new niece. Her name is Caisie Lynn, and she was born 11/12/13. We're hoping to go to Moncton sometime this coming week to see her beautiful little baby-ness. Merry Christmas to our family!